Message Body

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Usage Cases 3 Appearance & Interaction 3.1 Parsing Support 3.2 On Tap 3.3 On Tap with Hold 4 Constraints 5 Architectural Details 6 Implementation Recommendations 7 Cross-Widget Interactions 8 Unresolved Issues 9 Questions and Answers

Overview

The Message Body Widget provides a general method to handle interactions with text within a message.

Usage Cases

• Commonly used in the Details Area of Native Stylus-Based applications.

Appearance & Interaction

http://people.openmoko.org/sean/specifications/images/message_body.png

Parsing Support

The following text items can be parsed into fields:

• Dates & Times (can add into Calendar and To Do )
• Addresses (see if this is even possible)
• phone numbers (add to contacts, dialing)
• email and web addresses

On Tap

• (standard behavior based on parsed field type)

On Tap with Hold

• (standard behavior based on parsed field type)

Constraints

(TBD)

Architectural Details

(TBD)

Implementation Recommendations

• Could be derived from GtkTextView
• Parser needs to be synchronized with current locale.

Cross-Widget Interactions

(TBD)

Unresolved Issues

• Should this be even more general, and cover all multi-line text that is displayed?
• This is also going to be used for the RSS and Atom Reader and thus needs to display images, too. Is this possible?

Questions and Answers

(None)